Downtown Tulsa Office Space
601 South Boulder Avenue · Tulsa, Oklahoma
The building that gave Tulsa's oil men a place to close deals is being reimagined.
The building that gave Tulsa's oil men a place to close deals is being reimagined.
Completed in 1963 and built for the Petroleum Club of Tulsa, 601 South Boulder is a sixteen story tower in the heart of the downtown business district and a contributing structure to the Oil Capital Historic District. The club occupied the top floors. Below it sat the operators, landmen, geologists and attorneys who ran the industry from Tulsa.
The tower is under new ownership and a renovation of the lobby, common areas, garage and ground floor is underway. Floor plates run just under eight thousand square feet, which is large enough for a real company and small enough that a tenant can take an entire floor and put their name on the elevator lobby.
Travertine and bronze in the lobby. Ribbon glass on every elevation. From the upper floors the view carries west across downtown to the river and the hills beyond it.
Floors fifteen and sixteen sit where the club itself once did. Exposed structure, glass on every side, and long views west across downtown to the river.
Floors can be demised. Terms are negotiable.
Rates are quoted full service. Utilities, building services and property operating expenses are included in the rate. The building is in active lease-up and floors come available as plans firm up. If you do not see what you need, call anyway. We would rather build to your requirement than lease you the wrong floor.
The building is owned and managed by a small firm, not a national platform. When something breaks, you are calling the people who make the decisions, not a call center three states away.
At just under eight thousand square feet, a full floor here is within reach for a firm of fifteen to fifty people. Your name goes on the elevator lobby and the floor is yours.
A covered garage attached to the building with assigned stalls available to tenants. Downtown parking is the first thing employees complain about and the last thing most buildings solve.
New ownership has committed capital to the lobby, the common corridors, the garage and the ground floor. This is a building being restored, not one being harvested.
A design study for the ground floor. Nothing here has been built yet.
The lobby keeps what makes it worth keeping. The travertine, the bronze, and the lettering that has been on that wall since the building opened.
What changes is everything around it. Warmer light, better seating, and an opening from the lobby into a restaurant on the ground floor, so that the first thing you walk into is somewhere people want to be rather than a corridor to an elevator.
Because the tower is a contributing structure to the Oil Capital Historic District, the design goes through historic review before any of it is built. What is shown here is the intent, not the final drawing.
Tulsa called itself the Oil Capital of the World, and for sixty-one years this was the room where that claim got made in person.
The Petroleum Club of Tulsa forms as a private club for the men running an industry that was, at the time, largely run from Tulsa. Membership is the city's oil business in a single room.
The club builds its own tower. Sixteen stories on Boulder Avenue, with the club taking the upper floors and the offices below filled by the operators, landmen, geologists and attorneys who worked alongside it. The address becomes shorthand for the business itself.
After sixty-one years, the Petroleum Club of Tulsa ceases operations. The building carries on as an office tower, but the name goes quiet and stays quiet for fifteen years.
The building changes hands and the Petroleum Club name comes back with it. A renovation of the lobby, common areas, garage and ground floor is underway, undertaken in a way that respects the building's status as a contributing structure to the Oil Capital Historic District.
Tours are scheduled in advance. Send a note with your approximate square footage and timing and we will find a time.